Feeling Grateful & Giftful

**Psst- We know most Fridays we just post once, but Sherry will be back in a few hours with a big ol’ tool breakdown for everyone who requested some DIY-related holiday gift ideas. Does that get you as hot and bothered as it gets me?

It’s time for our monthly shout out to thank all of the Santa-esque sponsors who help make our other 30+ posts possible. Putting this jolly ol’ round-up of items together was especially fun, since we’ve definitely had gifts on the brain. So we’ve chosen things that feel seasonal-ish & festive (even if you just give ’em to yourself). Not that we’ve been gifted anything (here’s our no-swag policy). And of course there are some pretty sweet discounts to take advantage of at the bottom of the post for ya. Happy holidays everyone!

‘s organizing workshops for the scatterbrains on your Christmas list.

Chemical-free cleaning systems from consultant Heather Pheasey.

‘s $200 HomeGoods giveaway this week. That’ll buy lots of gifts!

This faux gator tray in festive lime green from (for the holiday hostess).

‘s bold glass mosaic patterns, like these cool “cherry” ellipse guys.

This open-form star pendant (and other holiday lighting) from .

‘seasonal decals that get everyone into the spirit (they’re removable, btw).

New removable glue-free wallpaper in kid-friendly patterns from .

Tons of holiday silhouettes at , like Santa hat kid plates. Cute!

‘s mix-and-match texture-filled patterns, like this one called “Rake Me Over.”

Comments

Yes! Maybe I can finally knock out my Christmas shopping for my hubby. We just bought our first house and I am totally unsure as to what to get him, but our house has been “well-loved” so we are working on putting a little love of our own into it!

Hello, I was just wondering if you did the drawing yet for the Seal Me house painting give away. I’m not sure if I missed it but I’m very excited about it so I just wanted to double check.
Thanks,
Gina

Yup, we’re sure! If you scroll back though our posts you can see that we’ve posted once each Friday since our last sponsor shout out on November 11th. Last Friday’s post was our monthly superlatives post, the week before that was the quiz from Nate Berkus, and the week before that was Four Things (about our secondhand finds and piggy speaker from West Elm). So we like to give folks a quick heads up when we’re breaking the once-on-Friday routine each month (since we only do it once out of 4-5 weeks). Hope it helps!

We started off with a miter saw (which can actually make straight or angled cuts very easily and cleanly) and eventually got a jig (which helps to join wood/make furniture) and then got a jig saw (which doesn’t make clean perfect cuts, so it’s better for demo). We’ll have more info in this afternoon’s post for ya!

Thanks for the discounts – I could buy something from almost all of your sponsors if I had the money!

BTW – this is totally off subject and related to a cleaning post from ages ago, but wanted to let you know how much that post helped us. It was about making all the homemade cleaners for your house with natural ingredients like baking or washing soda, borax, Dr. Bronner’s soap, vinegar, etc. I had been wanting to do this for so long but didn’t have the time (ok, or inclination) to go searching for cleaner recipes and try them out. But when you’re post so nicely included so many of them, I was ecstatic to try them (yeah, I’m weird like that). Well, I’m happy to say I’ve tried quite a few of them – glass cleaner, all-purpose spray, liquid cleaner (I use that for hand-washing dishes) and just recently made a batch of dishwasher detergent. And they ALL work wonderfully!!! I use the Dr. Bronner’s peppermint soap to make the spray and liquid cleaner and it smells AWESOME while using it and afterward too. I was a little nervous on the dishwashing detergent, but it works really well too. Sometimes the glasses have a tiny bit of residue on them, but nothing horrible and I don’t mind rinsing them a bit since we’re saving so much on cleaning supplies and I feel loads better knowing it’s safer for our family and better for the environment. Thank you so much for that wonderful post – you guys have inspired me to do so much more than I would have tried normally and it’s all been for the better! Merry Merry Christmas to you!

I’ve had my eye on a lamp at Shades of Light for a while. I see that you list a 10% discount with code YHL0811. However, your sidebar indicates that that discount expired on November 10. I know I can try the code at SOL to see if it works. Just want to know if your page needs to be updated.